If the International Longshoremen's Association and United States Maritime Alliance can't reach an agreement by Monday 11:59 PM, strike will begin.
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“There have been no face-to-face negotiations between the ILA and the USMX since June,” Sullivan said. So part of what the ILA is looking for is the West Coast equivalent of the ILA got a 32% wage increase last year. The Great Lakes division got a 40% wage increase and the East Coast ILA wants an equivalent wage increase to what the West Coast and the Great Lakes did. And the USMX is saying it’s simply too much. They can’t afford it.
Mirabella said exported produce, clothes, cars, car parts and even construction supplies could be harder to get and increase in price. The last time there was a strike of this magnitude was in 1977 for 45 days. “During the pandemic, this local in of itself lost about 50 members because we can’t social distance,” Smith said. “We are in the second most dangerous industry in America.”
News4JAX also reached out to our local port, JAXPORT. It is not part of the agreement, which is signed between the ILA union and the ocean carriers and terminal operators who use ILA labor. So it will not comment on the potential strike. However, JAXPORT would be impacted if the strike occurs with: It’s disgraceful that most of these foreign-owned shipping companies are engaged in a ‘Make and Take’ operation: They want to make their billion-dollar profits at United States ports, and off the backs of American ILA longshore workers, and take those earnings out of this country and into the pockets of foreign conglomerates. Meanwhile, ILA dedicated longshore workers continue to be crippled by inflation due to USMX’s unfair wage packages.
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